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ART OF CONNECTING BUTTONS T O FABRICS. No. 266,055. PatentedOct. 17, 1882.

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STATES UNKTE Parent ART OF CONNECTING BUTTONS TO FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 266,055, dated October 1'7, 1882.

Application filed August 15, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEROME B. SEcoR, of Brid geport, Fairfield county, Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Connecting Buttons to Fabrics, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to that class of artielesas shoes and gaitersin which a series of buttons are connected to a fabric by means of fastenings passing through theloops or eyes of the buttons; and my invention consists in the means hereinafter fully described, whereby the said buttons are connected to the leather or other fabric.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, illustrating the course of the thread in connecting a series of four buttons to a strip of leather or other fabric. Figs. 2 to 7 are diagrams illustrating the progressive formation of the stitch; Fig. 8, a perspective view showing the upper face of the fabric and buttons attached Fig. 9, a perspective view showing the lower face ofthe fabric and line ofstitching.

My invention consists in connecting a series of buttons to the supporting fabric by a single thread, so laid as to form on the outer face of the fabric a series of detached stitches or loops, a, Figs..1 and 8, each loop consisting of two parallel threads, and at the under surface a chain of substantially the character represented in Fig. 9, the main objects being, first, to use but one thread, and, second, to expose only so much thread on the outer surface as will make a loop sufficient to pass through the eye 6 of each button 1). Different modes of arranging or laying the thread to effect these results may be adopted, and different mechanisms-- as needles, loopers, shuttles, &c.-rnay be employed. In the drawings I have represented the formation of successive loops of one thread by means of a needle, d, and looper f, which will be used in connection with any suitable feed and actuating devices. (Not here described or shown, as they form no part of this invention, and will constitute the subject of a separateapplicationforLettersPatent.) Thelooper carries the single thread i beneath the fabric, and the needle has a side notch, a. The needle may first catch the thread below the fabric and rise and then descend through the eye of the button, fed automatically and held in place in any manner; or itmay descend first through the eye, as shown in Fig. 2, then catch the thread and draw up a loop thereof through the button-eye, as shown in Fig. 3, after which the needle or the fabric moves sidewise prior to the needle descending, as shown in Fig. 4, but at one side of and not in advance of the button, the diagrams illustrating the movements and not the actual relative positions of the partsof the thread. The looper then passes close to the needle through the loop held by the needle and carries the loop out of the notch a, as shown in Fig.5, when the needle ascends and the fabric is carried forward the length of one stitch in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 5, bringing the parts to the position shown in Fig.6. The needle now again descends through the eye 0 of another button I), placed as shown in Fig. 6, catches the thread at the side of the looper, as shown in Fig. 7, and then ascends, when the above-described operations are repeated. The fabric is thusperforated at two points adjacent to each button-eye, and the doubled thread is carried from one point to the other through the eye in the same manner as in hand-sewing. The manner in which-thc single thread is laid to thus connect the buttons is shown in the perspective view, Fig. 1, where a represents the doubled thread extending over the face of the fabric through the button-eye; g, the chain on the under face; h, the portions of thread carried up by the needle, and h the portions carried downward.

This mode of securing the buttons has the important advantages of but a single stitch on the face of the fabric to secure each button, and but a single row of chain 4 stitches upon the opposite face, afi'ording a secure hold with but little thread.

I claim- 1. The process herein described of securing buttons to fabrics, the same consisting in doubling a thread, passing the loop thus formed through the fabric in one direction laterally above the fabric thrdugh the button-eye, and then through the fabric in the opposite direction, and then passing through the looped end another doubled portion of the thread, forming a loop of the latter to make another stitch on the face of the fabric, and repeating the I In testimony whereot'I have signed my name above-described operations with such second to this specification in the presence oftwo subportion, all substantially as set forth. scribing witnesses.

2. The COll]bll1(1tiOll,Wlill the fabric and with I 5 the buttons secured thereto, of a single thread 7 J ERO ME B. SECOP.

formed into a series of loops on the face of the fabric, each loop on said face passing cross- \Vitnesses: wise to the line of the stitching through one V. R. O. GIDDINGS, of the buttoneyes, and forming at the back of ALFRED B. BEERS. 10 the fabric a single line of stitches as specified. 

